Usually, the 3rd word down is DEDIT (note the switched T and final D). Brian's version still works because there's still two of each letter, so there's still ways to arrange the cards.

The original pseudo-Latin words, while traditional, can be hard to remember. Fortunately, over the years, many English substitutes have been developed for this trick. Specifically, you need are N words of N+1 letters each (for example, 4 5-letter words, or 5 6-letter words), each of which have only 1 doubled letter, set up so that any pair of words shares a common letter.

In the long-running Word Ways magazine, they've been playing with this idea since 1969. In pages 185-186 of the August 1969 issue, they mention the following English arrangement as an already-standard substitute:

BIBLE
ATLAS
GOOSE
THIGH

Editor David Silverman goes on to propose 2 original alternatives, as well:

LIVELY
RHYTHM
MUFFIN
SUPPER
SAVANT
PILLAR
RHYTHM
MUFFIN
CACTUS
SNOOPY

At the end of a November 1968 article, mentions the challenge of developing a list of 6 7-letter words, which would require the use of 21 different doubled letters of the alphabet, as well as most of the deck (42 cards, obviously).